Watch satellite footage of lightning flashes as Hurricane Ian churned near Cuba.
RELATED: Space station shows stunning view of Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm and roared to the brink of Category 5 status, its maximum sustained winds blasting at 155 mph as the west coast of Florida braced for landfall Wednesday afternoon.
"It is going to have major, major impacts in terms of wind, in terms of rain, in terms of flooding," Gov. Ron DeSantis warned in a briefing Wednesday. "So this is going to be a nasty, nasty day, two days."
More than 140,000 homes and businesses in South Florida already were dark early Wednesday, according to the tracking website poweroutage.us. Power outages should be expected statewide, Florida Power & Light warned.
» Subscribe to USA TODAY:
» Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY:
» USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.
#Hurricane #Lightning #Space
That’s both awesome, and kinda terrifying,Lightning in the eye of the storm.
It’s a sign of rapid intensification. I wouldn’t be surprised if it reaches Cat 5
@Steven Smith it has my mother in law lives in florida
@Justin Mathis Hopefully you guys will be ok.
@Steven Smith it basically is a cat 5. which is pretty insane
Impressive. But a high altitude plane took that pic. Not a satellite
don’t say that BCS you will make all the sheep very angry
No it’s definitely taken from a satellite! (And by the way, the earth is definitely not flat!) 😂
Ok see, this makes me take my comment back about the pic being fake…still looks fake, but now it’s more believable that the pic came from a plane then a satellite 🛰️ orbiting space 🙄
@thomas holland same satellite that caused the system. Research!
Like with how pretty as it is that’s not a good sign is it
This stuff is really intense, especially if it’s in Texas.
Its in Florida were getting slammed rn
@Hełłø What do I also know about Texas? Did you notice that Texas has these hobby stores? As a matter of fact, they have; quite a number of Hobbytown USA stores. I even looked it up on the ‘You Tube’ channel. It was no surprise to me. The Texas residents even distributed, the Hobbytown USA TV commercials. Even though Texas doesn’t have an SNL {Saturday Night Live} comedy show studio, like what New York has. 😳 📺 🖥
This looks fake af how you know this is real photos?!?!
i know its real
watch the florida news
@Live Wire I was talking about the photos hot-wire 🤡🤡🤡
I think it’s from nasa idk
this is actually happening in florida tampa and cuba ad also orlando
not a joke its live on the news
Trust me I know I’m literally in the middle of this sht
Yeah it’s bad
Can someone help me though-
Imagine they were amping up the storm with HAARP and that’s why we see lightning . Weather modification tech has been around for decades. How do you think they removed fog from the Vietnam jungles ? Through geo engineering
Sucks that I’m basically getting a direct hit.
Imagine being in the eye and seeing that
I am so scared I live in Orlando hurricane ian I going start to me
Wow
GeoEngineering: the deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth’s climate